Louise Brooks in A Girl in Every Port screens in Chicago January 5

A Girl in Every Port, starring Victor McLaglen, Richard Armstrong, Louise Brooks, and a bevy of beauties, will be shown at the Music Box theater in Chicago on Sunday January 5, 2025 at 11:30 am. The screening is a presentation of the Chicago Film Society, and will feature live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.  More information about this special screening can be found HERE.

A Girl in Every Port, a 1928 silent, is being shown as part of a series, "The Silver Fox: Howard Hawks Matinees," which runs December 28, 2024 through February 23, 2025. Other Hawks' film in the series include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Cary Grant, To Have and Have Not (1944) with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and more.

The Music Box website describes A Girl in Every Port thus: "This cynical sex farce about two globetrotting sailors (McLaglen and Armstrong) who fight over a woman (Brooks) and then become best friends was described by Hawks as 'a love story between two men.' The film is notable for bringing cult screen icon-to-be Louise Brooks to the attention of director G.W. Pabst for his upcoming Pandora’s Box." (re: Pandora's Box, not so, IMHO)

Notably, the print being shown is a 35mm print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum.

When A Girl in Every Port was first shown in Chicago back in 1928, the local press gave the film glowing reviews, with Brooks singled out time and again. The Chicago Daily Journal stated, “Your correspondent, partial to all the McLaglen performances, had a grand time watching A Girl in Every Port, in which so much loveliness is contributed by that dark young venus, Miss Brooks.” The Chicago Tribune likewise added, “Various damsels rage through the action, but to Louise Brooks falls, as should, the plum feminine characterization. She pulls it off in her customary deft fashion – and the enchanting bob in which she first appeared before the movie camera.”

Also of note, A Girl in Every Port will be screened on February 28, 2025 as part of the Kansas Silent Film Festival. More about that event can be found HERE.

More about A Girl in Every Port can be found on the newly revamped Louise Brooks Society website on its A Girl in Every Port (filmography page).

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